According to the poll, only 55 percent of people answered false to the question "Joe Paterno was accused of molesting children." Twenty-eight percent said true and 17 percent of respondents were either unsure or refused to answer.

In other shocking results, fewer than 1 percent answered Syracuse to a question asking which major men's sports program fired a coach in 2011 for allegedly sexually abusing young boys. An overwhelming 68 percent answered Penn State despite the fact that Jerry Sandusky has been retired since 1999.

"The public knowledge of this case is pathetically poor and that is a direct result of the highly biased and radically incomplete media coverage of it," said John Ziegler, who is a documentary filmmaker and founder of framingpaterno.com. "This is a classic case of 'garbage information in, garbage information out.'"

Other surprising results from the poll include:

Only 23 percent of those polled knew Sandusky was retired when he was found in the Penn State locker room shower with a young boy.

Only 9 percent of the respondents knew that the victim in the allegation witnessed by Mike McQueary did not come forward and testify in the Sanduksky trial.

Also, only 17 percent of the people answered false to a question stating, "The Freeh Report found emails written by Joe Paterno directing a cover up of the scandal."

Asked about people questioning the validity of this poll because of it being commissioned by framingpaterno.com, Ziegler responded with this.

"Those people obviously have no idea how polling works," Ziegler said. "We hired a nationally known outside firm to conduct the poll and, if anything, they worked against our interests because they were so afraid of blowback on this politically correct and sensitive issue."